An author is writing a biography of the late Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, whose daughter, Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Jr. (born 1931) attended her freshman year at Champlain College, until she died in February, 1950.  She was engaged to a fellow Champlain student, Norbert Paul Schreiber.  His family lived at 73-14 137th Street in Flushing, NY.  The author is very much interested in tracking down Mr. Schreiber, if he is still alive.  She has done a property search of his former home, has spoken with a librarian at SUNY Plattsburgh who found a yearbook listing only his name and address but nothing more, and has checked the social security numbers of the dead and his name or number is not among them.  She has checked old telephone directories for Flushing.  If any CCer out there has ANY information about Mr. Schreiber, who went by the name Paul or the nickname "Buddy", we'd be very happy to hear from you [I remember a Paul Schreiber but nothing else].   (17 Jul 09)

An alumus of Harpur College/Binghamton U. sent in this historical narrative {edited slightly):   (24 Oct 09)

Your facts are pretty good.  I do have some corrections though (you even said your info was probably wrong).

I met Amy Gilbert when I was an undergrad at Harpur.  She was already retired and passed soon after I graduated.  As you said, she wrote the history of ACUNY, she was actually a professor at Champlain College.  She gave me a copy of her book.

Here's what I understand happened:

Triple Cities College was a contract college, sponsored by NYS under the supervision of Syracuse U.  It performed the same task as the ACUNY schools, but Syracuse after the contract years was going to shut it down; the state, through a local grass roots political movement, that included T. J. Watson of IBM, stepped in and purchased it and renamed it Harpur College.  Watson was key to Syracuse getting involved to begin with and provided one of the main buildings in Endicott where it all began.

Champlain and Sampson, in 1949/50; the assets are transferred to Harpur College.  To this day, if you go into the vast stacks at the Bartle Library, you will find books from Champlain and Sampson.  Little else still exists.  Actually, staff moved as well.  I know Professor Gilbert moved but I think there were some others too.

Thanks, Warren!